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The
Foreign Ministry says it is following closely the events in Egypt,
where anti-government protests have been said to have left 74 people
dead and around 2,000 wounded.

 

On Saturday morning the Israeli embassy in
Cairo was left empty as workers do not generally arrive on the weekend,
but authorities were debating whether to return to business as usual on
Sunday.

 

On Saturday morning riots reached the streets surrounding the
embassy. Egyptian security forces are guarding the US and British
embassies for fear that incidents such as those which occurred in Iran
in 1979 would recur in Cairo.

 

In addition, an official at Cairo International Airport said El
Al was trying to arrange a special flight Saturday to take roughly 200
Israeli tourists out of the country. The official spoke ... >>>